KATARINA THORSEN: CRAFTS. CRAFTIVISM. SOCK ART.

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I love this blog. It has been part of my social media collection of sites for years now. Its main focus has been my personal crafting projects, craftivism and Operation Sock Monkey, and I have loved sharing the magical moments with you.

So why retire it?

As I prepare to fully focus on my art career and on freelance therapeutic art facilitation as well as spending much needed time creating new crafts and developing an accompanying curriculum– I am harnessing in my blogging and sharing my various creative processes and teachings and musings on one main site: katthorsen.com

I am leaving this site up, as it contains a long visual history of my crafts and several how-to’s.

I want to acknowledge the extraordinary work of Operation Sock Monkey founder and lead operative Lindsey Hodgson. Truly my HERO! Where would we all be without her incredible vision and hard work? OMG. So many of us are operatives and happy sock monkey makers/therapists thanks to HER! And despite being a busy mom and professional woman, she takes time to man craft fairs and make sock monkey kits and manage OSM to help the cause expand and keep going. We are TRULY INDEBTED to this extraordinary woman. [APPLAUSE] Photo by Keith Lynn Staff

We talked about the Operation Sock Monkey Handbook and had a raffle at the end of the workshop. This lovely resident won the “Canada Ambassador” and loved decorating her sock bird.

Many of the residents are visually impaired yet loved creating through the sense of touch.

Thanks to Brent for arranging the opportunity and to Parmida for doing video capture for upcoming video! And thank you to the participants for being part of the cause. And to all the local OSM operatives who made the sock monkeys!

Photos courtesy of Global Sorority and Passion Foundation:

“Today the young women joined the @globalsorority community. As a sign of sisterhood they gave each other a bracelet with an intent of good will that they voiced to the woman as they placed the bracelet on.” – Loretta Cella

A beautiful week prepping monkeys culminated in an Operation Sock Monkey workshop today to create 46 sock monkeys (30 of which are ready for the April 24 trip!) as part of a Passion Foundation (Loretta Cella) and Global Sorority (Tia Kelly) project to provide leadership training to young girls and bring comfort to victims at the Patch Centre, South Africa.